…June gloom to follow shortly…
Gray May…
Category: photography
A masterpiece…
It belongs in a museum!
Old house tour…
The Newland House…
Newland House, 1898, Queen Anne style. Oldest residence in Huntington Beach.
…the kitchen…
…parlour…
The house has a turret, and from the time I was a little girl, I always wanted to know what was in it. It was a sewing/spinning room.
The view from the turret. What a wide open vista would have presented itself in 1898.
My favorite room. This girls’ room. I love the bank of wood-framed windows.
The stairs were…steep.
The barn, now a wedding venue.
I had a great tour, given by the city historian.
Back at Bolsa Chica…
It was a beautiful spring day.
Clear and breezy.
If you turn your back to the homes looming immediately behind you, you can almost forget that you’re in the midst of suburbia.
What we saw on our walk…
There’s one yard that always has a really nice wildflower display.
They even had these red poppies, which are pretty unusual.
Neighborhood watch. He never blinks!
Calling card.
May begins…
…with a couple of perfect Kentucky Derby roses! They weren’t omens or anything, because in spite of my month of studying, my handicapping most definitely did not come up smelling like a rose.
An outing at the local botanical garden…
A terrifyingly large staghorn fern…looks like an alien life form with bad intentions.
The color of these primroses was wild!
Just a bee doing helpful bee stuff.
Poppies…
Protea…
The water lilies were lovely.
It was a nice afternoon of flower-peeping at Sherman Gardens with a good friend.
If you’re in Southern California and haven’t been there, you should go. It’s cheap and one of our underrated gems.
On Brightwater Trail…
A nice cool day on the trail…
There were lots of flowers, even though the superbloom is fading…
Even the humble little blooms at the side of the path are beautiful…
The cactus flowers were just about ready to go off…
A golden poppy…
So I have these binoculars that are supposed to be able to attach to your camera so you can really get good zoom shots. This is the best picture I was able to get, lol!
Not just flowers…
There’s healthy stuff growing too!
Tomatoes…
Zucchini…
Cabbage…
Swiss chard…
Lettuce…
Sorrel…
What bloomed in April?
Nasturtiums, in a variety of colors!
Alyssum
The geraniums were going nuts.
Cabbage has flowers. Who knew?
Black-eyed susan vine…I love these muted colors.
Daisies…
Butterfly bush…
Clivia, liking their new home in the shade.